Organized Civil Society Under Authoritarian Populism: Cases from Ecuador

Appe, Susan; Telch, Fabian

doi:10.1515/npf-2019-0039

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“…Although the previous government (which lasted in power for almost a decade) seemed to favor more inclusive mechanisms of development, such as popular and solidarity economy, it also eroded civil society trust by legally suppressing dissenting voices ( Appe et al , 2019 ). In this context, it is somewhat understandable (although not at all justifiable) that EOC lacks civil society representation.…”

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“…Public revolts led to violent repression of protesters by police forces with support from the military, reinforcing their traditional role of social control ( Torres et al , 2020 ). The legacy of authoritarian governments has meant that civil society and social organizations in Ecuador have been pressed to develop ‘coping strategies’ to compensate for or counteract their limited participation in decision-making ( Appe et al , 2019 ).…”

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In the name of COVID-19: legitimizing the exclusion of community participation in Ecuador’s health policy

Torres¹,

López-Cevallos

2021

Health Promotion International

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Summary Global shifts toward a disease-oriented, vertical approach to health has involved limiting the right for communities to participate in decision-making. Ecuador’s authoritarian legacy has forced civil society and social organizations to adopt ‘coping strategies’, while large protests recently derived into violent struggles. The country has been severely hit by the COVID-19 pandemic amid corruption scandals involving hospital and food purchases by government during the response. This study critically examines how Ecuador’s government took into consideration ‘community participation’ as a value and tenet of health promotion. Our systematic textual analysis focuses on 53 consecutive resolutions by the National Emergency Operations Committee (EOC) leading the decision-making processes, which, explicitly requires community participation. Results show that the ‘lifecycle’ of the central government’s evolving policy framing centered on law enforcement and the private sector, followed by the social sector. Further, there is no evidence of stakeholders from civil society or organizations taking part in decision-making. Having legitimized the exclusion of community participation in Ecuador’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is possible that the government will fail to consider the wider social implications of its impact. In particular, the limits to local governments becoming informed and making decisions without mediation by the National EOC will further impede community participation in health decision-making in the future. This implies that local knowledge and experiences will also not inform health policy.

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In the name of COVID-19: legitimizing the exclusion of community participation in Ecuador’s health policy

Torres¹,

López-Cevallos

2021

Health Promotion International

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“…Different examples of participatory approaches in CSR strategies exist. For example, Appe and Barragán [36] describe how Participatory Action Committees (including community stakeholders and representatives) can be formed to co-design and co-implement CSR practices; Puranik [40] delineates methodological solutions to integrating the participation approach in a CSR plan; Anser et al [39] review how the participatory approach with hotel and tourism managers enhances CSR-practices in terms of their social and environmental impact; and Sattayapanich et al [9] discuss the factors that affect community participation in environmental CSRprojects.…”

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Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Participatory and Locally Visible – a Prototype Solution

Atzmanstorfer,

Bartling,

Zurita Arthos

et al. 2023

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Traditional Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)-programs rarely include participatory components that connect CSR-activities of private companies with their local communities. However, there is an increasing demand to include citizens as well as the resources and expertise of the private sector in the design and implementation of local community planning processes. To assess the potential, opportunities, and challenges of including private companies into participatory community planning at a local level, we analyzed the experiences that we collected during the piloting phase and the commercial roll-out of the ‘Bürgercockpit’-application for citizen participation, as well as the results of a digital CSR-questionnaire that we shared with different companies in Austria. Our research indicates that most of the participating companies are interested in including local communities into their CSR-projects using a digital tool, if this tool is easy-to-use, easy-to-access, and provides a flexible structure to address specific project requirements as well as properly designed features for stakeholder communication and user feedback. The findings of both, the ‘Bürgercockpit’-pilot study and the CSR-questionnaire provided us valuable input for designing a prototype solution of a digital CSR-tool for participatory community planning at a local level as well as recommendations for future research in this topic of growing interest.

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“…People coming together to achieve a common purpose is at the core of third sector research. Collective action ranges from a few people pooling resources to give to others (Eikenberry, 2006) to co-productive arrangements for public service provision (Branson & Honingh, 2016), to the complexities of international and national laws governing civil society organizations (DeMattee, 2019) and their responses (Appe et al, 2019). Institutions-defined as rules, norms and strategies (Ostrom, 2005)-are central in all of these examples.…”

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The Institutional Grammar: A Method for Coding Institutions and its Potential for Advancing Third Sector Research

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Institutions—defined as strategies, norms and rules (Ostrom Understanding institutional diversity, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2005)—are omnipresent in third sector contexts. In this paper, we present the Institutional Grammar (IG) as a theoretically informed approach to support institutional analysis in third sector research. More specifically, the IG coding syntax allows the researcher to systematically wade through rich text and (transcribed) spoken language to identify and dissect institutional statements into finer syntactical segments of interest to the researcher. It is a versatile method that can generate data for small- or large-N research projects and can be integrated with mixed-method research designs. After first introducing and describing the IG, we present a case study to illustrate how a IG-based syntactic analysis can be leveraged to inform third sector research. In the case, we ask: Do the rules embedded in regulatory text addressing the involuntary dissolution of charity organizations differ between bifurcated and unitary jurisdictions in the United States? Using IG’s ABDICO 2.0 syntax, we identify eleven “Activation Condition” (AC) categories that trigger action and assess variation among the 46 jurisdictions. We ultimately conclude that the rules do not differ between bifurcated and unitary jurisdictions, but that finding is not the primary concern. The case demonstrates IG as an important methodological advance that yields granular, structured analyses of rules, norms and strategies in third sector settings that may be difficult to identify with other methods. We then emphasize four areas of third sector research that could benefit from the addition of IG-based methods: analysis of (1) rule compliance, (2) inter-organizational collaboration, (3) comparative study of institutional design, and (4) the study of institutional change. We close the paper with some reflections on where IG-based analysis is headed.

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Organized Civil Society Under Authoritarian Populism: Cases from Ecuador

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

In the name of COVID-19: legitimizing the exclusion of community participation in Ecuador’s health policy

In the name of COVID-19: legitimizing the exclusion of community participation in Ecuador’s health policy

Making Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Participatory and Locally Visible – a Prototype Solution

The Institutional Grammar: A Method for Coding Institutions and its Potential for Advancing Third Sector Research

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